When it came time to sell their 25-year-old pumper, Bart Township's volunteer firefighters had just two bids. One, from a private collector, was for $3,000. The second was lower. Much lower. But the cause is a good one and that's the offer the local volunteers took, donating their engine to a needy fire company in Tennessee. But the Rutledge, Tennessee, company will have to pay a nominal amount, $1, to get the 1990 Ford E-1 pumper. The Bart firefighters have replaced the Ford with a new Pierce pumper that went into service earlier this month.

Organizers are putting the final touches on the 13th annual Solanco Relay for Life. The event will be held in Quarryville's Memorial Park from 4 p.m. on Friday, June 26, through noon on Saturday, June 27. By this past Friday morning, 15 teams had signed up to participate, team captain Karen Keefer said. While that's one more team than participated in 2014, the total number of people scheduled to take part has declined. "We're scheduled to have 96 this year and it was 126 last year," Keefer said.

Saturday's softball tournament was the start of what Neil Uniacke hopes will be an annual event. "I hope this becomes a tradition," he said Saturday morning as the first New Hope Softball Tournament got underway on the upper and lower fields at Quarryville's Memorial Park. "I want to keep this alive." Until 15 years ago, adult softball leagues were common in the Southern End. The leagues played on park fields, like the ones in Quarryville, and on private diamonds.

Quarryville Fire Chief Joel Neff, Ladies Auxiliary members Lori Singles and Danielle Worrell, and Auxiliary President Cindy Sheets stand behind a table holding some of the items vendors will be selling on Saturday, June 27.

They won't be selling anything, but members of Quarryville Fire Company's Ladies Auxiliary hope their fundraiser will bring in needed revenue for the volunteer firefighters. Instead, the people who will be selling items at the fundraiser will pay to use the fire station at 217 E. State St. "The vendors will pay to rent space," explained organizer Danielle Worrell. Those vendors will be selling products ranging from jewelry and candles to health supplies and household goods. Vendors who have already signed up sell Avon, Herbalife, ItWorks, Mary Kay, Tupperware, Jewelry in Candles, and other items. "We expect to have between 15 and 20 vendors at the show," Worrell said. Some of the vendors will be selling items at the show while others will take orders for items to be delivered later. Most will have free samples available. Many of the vendors are local, she added.

There are shoes, insulated lunch boxes, sneakers, gym clothes, books, jewelry, eyeglasses, and coats. Lots of coats. Each of Solanco's two middle schools has tables full of coats left behind when the last students went home for the summer on Wednesday, June 10. Now school officials have put out the lost and never-claimed items so owners or their parents can retrieve them. A few of the items are easy to identify, including a camo insulated lunchbox found at Smith.

Under clear skies, 271 members of Solanco High School’s Class of 2015 graduated on Tuesday evening, June 9. This was the first graduation in four years to be held outdoors. For the past three years, threatening weather moved the ceremony indoors.

Although she has lived all over the world, Fulton Township is home. That's why, after moving back several years ago, Mary Murray Marietta wanted to do something for her community. "A year ago, she called us and asked if she could make a donation to the township," said supervisor and roadmaster Mike Church. She decided to give the township a donation to help the road crew buy a new mower. The tractor-mounted mower takes a beating, hitting debris and rocks hidden in the tall roadside grass. Fulton had planned to replace the mower next year, but officials didn't realize they would have help paying for it. Such donations are nearly unheard of, Church said.

Drivers brought their cars, trucks, and hotrods to the 14th annual Moonlite Cruisers gathering in Quarryville's Memorial Park on Saturday, June 6. Restorers, builders, and spectators walked through the lines of vehicles, listened to 50's rock and roll, and visited with other aficionados.

The final weekend food bags went home on Friday afternoon, June 5. But the end of the school year doesn't mean the end of Solanco Food Bank's supplemental program for kids. Beginning July 1, the program will make food available to families whose children participated in the SWEEP program during the school year. SWEEP, the Solanco Week End Eating Program, got its start six years ago when the food bank teamed up with Quarryville Elementary School to provide weekend meals for 20 students. For the school year that ends this week, the program provided weekend meals for 286 children.